Spring 2009 Blogs

Please click on the links below to access the blogs of students from the Spring 2009 semester of Hispanic Hartford, to see how these teams of students used the information they gathered from street conversations along with course readings to come to their own conclusions about Latino identity in Hartford today.

What we want to get out of this class. We would like to become better acquainted with the great city of Hartford and learn how to better take advantage of its rich culture. We are excited to use this class as a worthwhile opportunity to practice and improve our grasp of the spanish language.

Why we decided to enroll in Hispanic Hartford: We want to connect with and gain a deeper understanding of the immediate community surrounding Trinity through interaction and community participation, as well as sharpening our Spanish language skills.

We would like to learn more about the Hartford Latino community by talking and interacting with different people. In doing so, we want to improve our Spanish-speaking abilities by speaking it in real life situations. We also want to know how the Latino community has changed over the last ten years. Finaly we hope to …

What we want to get out of this class: We would like to learn about the Hartford community as a whole, and more specifically how the Latino community within the city interacts with others. We’d also like to connect more to the Hartford community through learning more about their language and culture and through interacting …